Federal Office for the Environment FOEN

The federal environmental authority. It is responsible for ensuring that natural resources are used sustainably, that the public is protected against natural hazards, and that the environment is protected from unacceptable adverse impacts.

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Reaches surveyed - cross section securing point

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the reaches of watercourses which are currently surveyed periodically under the leadership of the FOEN. They are usually surveyed every 10 years or after major floods...

Last updated: March 3, 2025
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- official-geodata
Alpine Floodplains outside of the federal inventary

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

As past of the systematic inventory of flood plains, properties that were until recently not evaluated as having national significance will also be included in the federal...

Last updated: July 4, 2019
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- environment
- e-geoch
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- biotope
- space-provided-for-waters
Alpine pastures protected by livestock guardian dogs

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The return of large predators to Switzerland has led to the use of livestock guardian dogs on our alpine pastures. Herd guards are used to protect livestock against larger...

Last updated: October 3, 2024
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Federal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Sites of National Importance - Shifting Sites

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

There are currently 19 different amphibian species that live in Switzerland, and nearly all of them are included in the Red List of Threatened Species. The areas that contain...

Last updated: November 1, 2017
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- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Windstorm: Gusts at return period 50 years

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

Last updated: November 7, 2014
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- wind
- storm
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 300 years

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

Last updated: November 7, 2014
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- storm
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Base areas (catchment areas) HADES

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The base areas form the lowest layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). As many...

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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- gewiss
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Swiss residual flow maps Return flows

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Federal Act of 24 January 1991 on the Protection of Water against Pollution (LPEP) and its provisions on residual flows came into force on November 1, 1992 in Kraft getreten....

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- official-geodata
National Air Pollution Monitoring Network NABEL: stations

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) monitors air quality at 16 different locations in Switzerland. The monitoring stations are spread over the entire country and...

Last updated: January 1, 2021
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- air-pollutant
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
- official-geodata
Map of the recent earthquakes (last 90 days) in and around Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map of the earthquakes of the last 90 days shows the current seismic activity in Switzerland and the nearby regions recorded by the Swiss Seismological Service at the ETH...

Last updated: November 1, 2016
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- landsat
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
National Long-Term Surveillance of Swiss Rivers

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The National River Monitoring and Survey Programme (NADUF) tracks the concentrations of substances occurring in selected Swiss watercourses. NADUF, launched in 1972, is a project...

Last updated: December 7, 2022
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Distribution of ibex colonies

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

After being resettled in 1906, Alpine (Capra) ibex live in colonies of varying sizes throughout the Alpine region and in the Jura mountains. Because the growth of stocks in...

Last updated: March 31, 2021
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- environment
- game-animals
- wild-animal
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Balance areas (catchment areas) HADES

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The balance areas form the middle layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). They are...

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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- gewiss
Windstorm: Gusts at return period 300 years

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

Last updated: November 7, 2014
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- natural-risk-analysis
- natural-risk
- wind
- storm
- air-movement
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Vegetation height model NFI

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

Information on the vegetation height is determined using remote sensing methods with active and passive sensors. LiDAR is an active sensor. An optical sensor, for example an aerial...

Last updated: October 31, 2023
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- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- wood
- forest-resource
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Cantons NFI

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

According to the geometry of the data set, Switzerland is divided into cantons. Basel Stadt and Basel-Landschaft are considered as a single unit.

Last updated: January 1, 2021
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- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- forest-resource
- wood
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- national
Warning Forest Fire Danger

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

The FOEN's forest fire danger warning contains the general daily forest fire danger based on meteorological data and the resulting forest fire indices.

Last updated: November 17, 2022
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- forest-fire
- wood
- prevention-of-forest-fires
- natural-risk
- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies 2 km²

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The data set ‹sub-basins 2 km²› is the central element of the geodata set. It is made up of a comprehensive mosaic of over 22,000 topographically defined sub-basin areas that can...

Last updated: July 1, 2010
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Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies: Area outlets

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The "Area outlets" data set is part of the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. It consists of point objects that represent the area outlets for a...

Last updated: July 1, 2010
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Economic regions NFI

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

Switzerland is divided into fourteen areas according to the geometry of the data set. They represent different forest growth and economic conditions and represent a refinement of...

Last updated: November 16, 2020
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- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
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- forest-resource
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- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

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